ARMORUM ARCHIVE
French historian, genealogist, publicist and civil administrator, later marquis de Belleval. His works studied armour, aristocratic culture, genealogy and the customs of earlier centuries.
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French cavalry officer and fencing author whose Traité d’escrime à pied et à cheval appeared in 1815 and in an enlarged second edition in 1818. A German adaptation followed in 1819.
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British civil engineer, sports writer and peer who became the fifth Baron Headley. An accomplished boxer and exponent of self-defence, he co-authored the 1890 Broad-sword and Single-stick manual with Clive Phillipps-Wolley.
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English naval administrator, parliamentarian, diarist and Fellow and later President of the Royal Society. His diary and correspondence are major witnesses to Restoration public, naval and social life.
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Italian humanist, translator, editor, and literary figure associated with the world of vernacular learning, commentary, and Renaissance print culture. He enters the project as a contextual author whose work intersects the broader intellectual environment in which martial, chivalric, and gentlemanly texts circulated.
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French fencing master and silver medallist in the masters’ foil event at Paris 1900.
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English judge, politician and antiquary whose manuscript writing addressed the antiquity, use and ceremony of combats in England.
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English antiquary, politician and manuscript collector, author of a notice on the antiquity, use and ceremony of lawful combats in England preserved among the Stowe manuscript references.
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Corporate authority for official Swedish military fencing and gymnastics instructions represented in this catalogue, including cavalry and infantry manuals issued between 1859 and 1882.
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Portuguese army lieutenant, court noble and fencing writer. Teotónio Rodrigues de Carvalho compiled and translated material from French authors into a complete Portuguese foil course and a shorter dialogue, both printed by the Impressão Régia in Lisbon in 1804.
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French writer whose works on historical duelling include Les duellistes and Les drames de l’Épée.
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Roman wool merchant, fencing master and writer known for Il cavaliere compito (Viterbo, 1609) and a related fencing text recorded in 1610.
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